MLB.com's Carrie Muskat has been covering Major League Baseball since 1981 and is the author of "Banks to Sandberg to Grace: Five Decades of Love and Frustration with the Cubs." You can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. Here, she blogs about the Cubs.

7/2 LIneup Friday

Mike Fontenot is starting at second base Friday for the Cubs as they try to load up on lefties against the Reds’ Bronson Arroyo. He’s the third different second baseman in the last five games. Here’s the lineup:

Although I will not bash Lee and Ramirez considering they were the two best pickups by Hendry and their current season long slump is admittedly bewildering all of us fans and Hendry I will say that when Lou keeps on saying things like “what else can I do” and “I’ve tried everything”…well Lou you never did try dropping Ram and Lee WAY down in the order THAT”S something else you can do. Or would that hurt their feelings too much as well as Hendry’s?
I know Lou is struggling to find the right line up but it is more of an indictment on Hendry. A sad roster when given 140 million to “play” with is a much bigger act of negligence than a manager’s frustrating attempts at finding a line up from that roster. And by the way, if we HAD somebody that hustles like Reed we may not have such a terrible one run loss record. Can’t re-sign Johnson…NO SIR he was injured and he might hurt himself again-oh my!, must have Nady, can’t play Fuld, MUST have NADY!!! And HIS injured arm. What a caveman way of doing business…HULK SMASH!!

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